This is the Rubric used to evaluate each activity/lab done in this class:
1. Prior to this activity, how would you rank yourself in knowledge about the topic. (1-No Knowledge at all, 2-Very Little Knowledge, 3-Some knowledge, 4-A good amount of knowledge, 5-I knew all about this)
2. Following this activity, how would you rate the amount of knowledge you have on the topic (1- I don’t really know enough to talk about the topic, 2- I know enough to explain what I did, 3-I know enough to repeat what I did, 4-I know enough to teach someone else, 5- I am an expert)
3. Did the hands-on approach to this activity add to how much you were able to learn (1-Strongly Disagree, 2-Disagree, 3-No real opinion, 4-Agree, 5-Strongly Agree)
What types of learning strategies would you recommend to make the activity even better?
Evaluation for Sandbox Activity:
1. Before this activity I would rank myself as a 3, with some in knowledge about this topic.
2. After this activity I would rank myself as a 4, with enough confidence in my knowledge to teach someone else about this topic and how to do this activity.
3. I would rank the hands on activity as a 4 in helping to learn about this topic. I think actually creating our own landscape and surveying it was a memorable experience and was a good way to build an understanding of surveying.
I think one learning strategy that could help in making this activity even better would be to have more of a discussion about sampling methods, or explaining the sampling link page a little more so we understand the types of sampling better. Overall I appreciated this activity and thought it was a great first project as an introduction to the class.
Evaluation for Azimuth Distance Survey Method Activity:
1. Before this activity I would rank myself as a 2 in my knowledge prior to this activity. I easily understood the concepts behind it all, I just had no idea some of the tools used existed in ArcMap and that they were that easy to use and create a nice map from.
2. I would rank myself as a 4 in this topic after completing this activity. After collecting the data and bringing it all into ArcMap I understood how it all worked. Once I wrote the technical report I was really able to drill it into my brain and understand each and every step better.
3. I would rank the benefit of this hands on activity as a 4. I agree that it was very helpful in understanding how the data can be collected and made into a map.
I'm not sure I can think of any other learning strategies that can be taken to enhance this activity. It was enjoyable and nice to be outside and have some freedom in where to collect the data and which trees to choose. I do think it would have been nice to have a better way to identify tree species and be given tips on how to display that in the final map result.
Evaluation for Litchfield Mine Surveying Field Day:
1. Before this activity I would rank myself as a 2 in my knowledge on this topic. I understood how GCP's were used to tie down an image to the Earth's surface, but I had no previous experience with them in the field. I also knew very little about how they were measured using GPS. I also had very little knowledge of how the drones worked, but it was very cool getting to see it in person.
2. I would rank myself as a 3 in my knowledge after this activity. I understand what we did quite well, and how and why we did it. I'm not sure I could run the survey grade equipment like the professionals, but I could easily repeat what we did as students in this activity.
3. I would rank myself as a 4; I think it was very beneficial to have this hands-on type of learning when it comes to using GCP's, UAS, etc. It made this day very memorable and it was beneficial to listen to what the professionals from Topcon and Menet Aero had to say about the industry and about the technology they were using.
I enjoyed this activity. Though it was a long day, and it landed on an unfortunate Saturday, I think the experience we got from working with professionals in the surveying field and with the technology they use was invaluable. I'm not sure of another time I will be able to work with hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of equipment in the field like that. I also thought it was cool how close we got to be to the drones all day. And though it was extremely unfortunate that two of the drones crashed, it was also pretty epic. I did not think the day was going to be so exciting. It also taught me a lesson - always buy insurance for expensive things. It shows that even the most advanced technology we have in the industry can fail, and there is still a ways to go before this equipment is perfect. I do hope that the damage done to the drones wasn't too costly, because it definitely seemed to be failure on the technology's end, not the user end.
One thing I can think of that would help future students with note taking and the technical write up is to have a very concrete understanding of the plan for the day, and to make sure to ask the people setting up the equipment all the information needed in the write up. I would also encourage future students to remember to take good, close pictures of all the equipment so that it looks better in the technical report.
Evaluation for Creation of Navigation Maps activity:
1. I would rank myself at a 2 before this activity. I understood the goal and idea of the project but had no real means of creating such a map beforehand.
2. I would rank myself as a 3 after this activity. I would like to learn more ways to create a useful navigation map.
3. I think the hands-on value of this activity was about a 3. It will become much more useful (hopefully) during the actual use of the maps when traveling to the priory.
I enjoyed this activity. I think creating maps for navigation is really cool and very applicable to my interests. I could use this for any backpacking/hiking trips I plan to do in the future. I also like the geographic creativity that is needed to create a map for a specific purpose like this activity. I had trouble with getting the lidar layers to match up with the location of the actual priory, so they didn't look how some others' did.
Evaluation for Bad Elf Lab activity:
1. I would rank myself at about a 2.5 before this activity. I could easily understand the concept before doing the activity, I had just had little exposure to it.
2. I would rank myself as a 4 after doing this activity. I think it was easy to replicate and could do it again, and maybe would even try using other devices or apps.
3. I think having this be a hands-on activity was a 3. Though it could have all been explained to us inside, it was nice going outdoors to track using the Bad Elfs and learning about the other apps.
I like the simplicity of this activity. It was easily demonstrated how this is becoming increasingly popular in the industry today, and it was easy to understand and recreate. This could easily be applicable to something I might do for a career in the future that has to do with GPS. It was surprisingly easy to get the tracklog onto the phone app and into ArcGIS Earth.
Evaluation for Survey123 for ArcGIS activity:
1. Before this activity I would rank myself as a 2 in knowledge of this topic. I have participated in surveys similar to this before, just not with a geographical context tied to it.
2. I would rank myself as a 4 in knowledge of this topic after the activity. I could easily repeat what we did, and I feel I have a good understanding of how the whole process works in ArcGIS.
3. I would rank myself as a 4; I think it was valuable to go through this tutorial because we got to learn how to make a survey, which isn't very difficult, and we also got to work with this application that is becoming increasingly popular and used throughout the industry.
I enjoyed this lab. It was a change up from the other work we've done so far in this course, because it was extremely structured and provided step by step instructions. It was also very cool to see how common handheld technology is used for very real applications and can produce valuable data in the field. It was simple enough for almost anyone to understand, and practical for real world application.
Evaluation for ArcCollector Part 1 Activity
1. Before this activity I would rank myself as a 3 in knowledge of this topic. I understood the concept of using the GPS location on a phone, as well as creating attribute fields for data to be entered. It was a way to combine the two.
2. I would rank myself as a 4.5 in knowledge of this topic after the activity. I feel I could easily repeat the process and improve my effectiveness of collecting data points. I feel I could also explain this activity to others and help them go through it.
3. I would rank the hands-on approach as a 4 for this activity. I think any geography student in this class would be able to easily understand the premise of this activity by just having it explained to them, but I think actually going out in the field and collecting data points ourselves was valuable and memorable, as well as fun.
I enjoyed this lab because we got the chance to go outside and collect data around campus. We were able to create a decent product by just taking the points collected by our class as a whole and putting it into a cool sort of weather map. We were then able to analyze those maps and make hypotheses as to why there were variances in the data in each map.
Evaluation for ArcCollector Part 2: Project
1. Because we had done previous work with ArcCollector, I felt I had a pretty good understanding of what to do and what steps to take in order to achieve the end goal of this activity. I would rank myself a 4.
2. I would rank myself as a 4.5 after completion of this project. I feel I could repeat it easily, and improve in several ways if I were to try a similar project.
3. I would rank this as a 4 for hands-on approach. It was very memorable creating the geodatabase, web map, and going out and collecting the data on our own. It was nice having that independence and responsibility to do our own project that is out in the real world with our own cell phones.
I actually really enjoyed this lab because it gave me a chance to come up with a project that I can care about. I contacted Gaye Brunkow the owner of Little Berry Farm about it and she was delighted to have me out there and answer any questions I had, mostly because I am a former employee and still a friend of hers. I think I will actually be able to apply this technical knowledge to future projects of mine and now see the usefulness and links between ArcMap, Web GIS, and cell phone apps. It is pretty incredible how they can all work together pretty smoothly to make a project like this fairly simple.
Evaluation of Sandbox Visualization (Part 2 of Sandbox Activity)
1. I would rate myself as a 3 before this interpolation/visualization activity. I had some previous experience with interpolation in GIS and some exposure to ArcScene, but was not super confident in my knowledge and skills of either.
2. I would rank myself as a 4 after the completion of this project. I could repeat the process, but am not sure of too many ways I could improve the process other than making the maps and 3D images look better.
3. I would rank myself as a 4 for agreement that a hands-on approach to this activity was helpful. Actually applying the interpolation methods to a 3D surface was important in understanding how it works.
This activity was decent in that we got good exposure to this process, though some of the methods did not seem all that different from each other when displayed. Figuring out how to use both the 3D and 2D images in the both map. I had a hard time understanding how to create a fish net, grid, or north arrow for the 3D image. Overall this was a pretty cool activity.
Evaluation of PIX4D processing with NO GCPs activity
1. I would rank myself as a 2 for my prior knowledge of this topic. I could sort of understand how this process worked, but I could probably not explain it to someone before doing this lab.
2. I would rank myself as a 3.5 after completion of this lab. I feel I understood mostly how this process worked and the different settings that were important to tweak before processing, but I may still not grasp it 100%.
3. I would rank myself as a 4 for valuing the hands-on aspect of this lab. If it were just explained to me via powerpoint it would have gone much more over my head. Actually following through this process helped me to understand each step that goes into it. Also exploring the PIX4D desktop app was interesting and gave me some insight into the software.
I think this is a pretty cool project, but I'm still having somewhat of a hard time understanding how the use of GCPs will impact the elevation. I get that it will change the values, but I could not recognize any error when using the DSM or orthomosaic image in ArcMap. I'm curious to see how it works out in the next activity.
Evaluation of PIX4D processing with GCPs activity.
1. I would rank myself as a 3 for my prior knowledge of this topic. Because we had just done pretty much the same process a week beforehand this one was not too difficult.
2. I would rank myself as a 3.5 after this activity. It is a complicating process, but I feel I have a decent grasp on how everything works.
3. I would rank this as a 4 for hands-on learning. Without going out to the mine ourselves and seeing the imagery being taking and personally laying GCPs, and then processing them with and without GCPs it would not have been as impacting.
It was interesting seeing how GCPs can affect the real values of the data. This imagery processing was complicated and time consuming but in the end this method of surveying is very valuable and will probably continue to grow in popularity as technologies progress.
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